Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bilow who wrote (186166)	9/24/2001 6:53:57 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Carl: Hey, I'm not a pothead. Your post is informative. The forestry service did build the roads that opened up this country to cars, I think. The auto industry and oil industries successfully lobbied against better public transportation and for themselves. btw, I've planted lots of trees and no marijuana ever.

To: Bilow who wrote (186166)	9/24/2001 7:02:25 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 769670

Higher environmental costs for hemp as well, you have to cultivate the land annually at a minimum, causing extensive erosion .... most land here in BC on which we grow timber is not flat enough to cultivate, so better a rotation closer to a hundred years, while leaving the root systems of the harvested timber intact to resist erosion .... plus we grow native species for the purpose, not anything artificially introduced ... plus, most of the pulp chips come as byproduct of higher value uses like lumber and veneer production .... so even if hemp was economical in some places and useful for some uses, it could never replace nsbk as a base for paper ... [nsbk = northern softwood bleached kraft] ... raw fiber millgate costs are a miniscule portion of the price of the finished bale of pulp, anyway You do a little forestry, don't you Carl .... know much about the 'commerce' department protectionism against canadian lumber? ... i started a thread on the subject, unfortunately worded title considering recent events, contains the word 'attack' .... yet that is in fact what we know it to be - #subject-51596 .... anyway, you'd be welcome to discuss the subject there, or on the winter thread, follow my bio for that .... cheers